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Apple released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and impacting iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices, reaching 20 zero-days patched since the start of the year. Citizen Lab disclosed two other zero-days, fixed by Apple in September and abused as part of a zero-click exploit chain to install NSO Group's Pegasus spyware.
Signal has had the ability to manually authenticate another account for years. The feature is called Contact Key Verification, and it does just what its name says: it lets you add a manual verification step in an iMessage conversation to confirm that the other person is who their device says they are.
The steps in this guide describe the process of associating an iPhone with an Apple ID when using iOS 17 on both your first iPhone and a second iPhone. There are many reasons you might associate your Apple ID with a second brand new iPhone or even an older iPhone that has been restored to the default factory settings.
The Find My network and application is designed to help users locate lost or misplaced Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, AirPods, and Apple Tags. The service relies on GPS and Bluetooth data crowd-sourced from millions of Apple devices worldwide to find devices reported as lost or stolen, even if those are offline.
Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors. Mahua's post therefore accuses India's government of being the state actor Apple believe has attacked her iPhone.
Learn how to easily associate an Apple ID with a second iPhone to access all your apps, media and iCloud services seamlessly with this step-by-step guide. There are several reasons you might use two iPhones with the same Apple ID. You might link a second iPhone to your Apple ID to permit sharing files, contacts, calendar information, photos, videos and similar information with a business partner or spouse.
Three years after Apple introduced a menu setting called Private Wi-Fi Address, a way to spoof network identifiers called MAC addresses, the privacy protection may finally work as advertised, thanks to a software fix. "To communicate with a Wi-Fi network, a device must identify itself to the network using a unique network address called a Media Access Control address," Apple explains in its documentation.
The vulnerability, which the researchers named iLeakage, enables threat actors to read Gmail messages, reveal passwords and uncover other personal information. The iLeakage vulnerability has not yet been exploited in the wild as of October 27.
On Wednesday, Apple released security updates for all supported branches of iOS and iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and Safari. Another vulnerability of note fixed this Wednesday with the release of iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, tvOS 17.1 and watchOS 10.1 is CVE-2023-42846, a bug that made a privacy-enhancing feature not work as intended.
Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops. This is the second patch that Apple has issued to fix the vulnerability.